Chapter 109: Only with Strength Can We Guard
The golden sunlight poured through the gap in front of the bed, and the wind blew through it, blowing the curtains. The sunlight shone in, Fu Zhixia narrowed his eyes, looked at the clear mountains in the distance, and slowly withdrew his gaze.
The thin quilt slid down from the smooth skin, she was stunned, she basically couldn't remember what happened after drinking at night, and she couldn't remember how she got home, why she was in Huo Shaoting's bed like this, but it was just a headache, and it should have been inferred from common sense that nothing had happened.
None of this matters to her anymore.
Now, all her attention is on Yang Meiling's words, on the long and heavy dream at night.
She clearly remembered her father's face, as well as the young Fu Zhihan, and ......
The small village where she used to live is called Qingxi Village.
This is a small village in the middle of nowhere, the economy is very underdeveloped, and the people in the village are basically farmers who rely on the mountains and the water.
She didn't know when she started arriving in Jincheng, but what existed in those memories was Yang Meiling's unkindness to her, and her father's kindness to her.
The tall man with a square face was really good to her and pampered her in the palm of his hand. Therefore, the days in Qingxi Village are still very happy.
After Fu Zhihan's incident, her father took her to live elsewhere for a while, and took her to the doctor. Later, he took her back to Qingxi Village again, and talked with Yang Meiling alone for a while before stepping into the house.
She waited anxiously in front of the door, and when the door opened, her father touched her head lovingly, and Yang Meiling also took her hand and said with a smile: "Are you hungry? Mom will go down for you." β
She nodded violently, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Zhixia is good, my mother has already forgiven you, Xiaohan's matter has nothing to do with you. In the future, Mom will be angry with you for no reason, tell Dad, huh?" The man's rough hand touched her face, "We know Xia, we are the most beautiful and sensible little girl in the entire Qingxi Village, and we will be happy every day in the future, okay?"
"Daddy......" she choked and threw herself into her father's arms, "Daddy, I will definitely be obedient, I will work hard, I will be your pride." β
"Well, Dad knows, we know Xia is the most well-behaved, and Zhixia is the biggest pride of Mom and Dad. β
He walked to the table with Fu Zhixia in his arms, the steaming noodles had been placed on the table, the green onions looked refreshing on the white noodles, and the golden poached eggs on both sides were shiny.
"Come, Zhixia, eat noodles. β
She walked over obediently, took a few bites with chopsticks, raised her head and smiled at Yang Meiling: "The noodles are so delicious, thank you Mom." β
She glanced at her, smiled a little forcefully, and turned her head to wipe her eyes.
There was a knock on the door, and Bai Ma's somewhat worried voice came from outside the door: "Young lady, are you awake?" The young master explained that he wanted to make some sobering tea. β
"Oh, wait. β
Fu Zhixia got up and got out of bed, lifted the quilt and saw the bath towel wrapped inside, she made up the possible picture in her mind, her face was slightly hot, and she quickly changed her clothes and opened the door.
Bai Ma walked in with breakfast and sobering tea, and looked at her pale face distressedly: "How much wine has to be drunk...... Look at this bad face. Come, have breakfast first, and then drink tea. β
Bai Ma sat on the side and watched her eat breakfast, and said, "The young master said, the hospital helped you take a week off to let you rest at home." Young lady, the young master knows more and more that it hurts people, if you give him a big fat boy, he doesn't know how happy he is. β
When Fu Zhixia heard this, the milk choked all of a sudden, and Bai Ma patted her back anxiously: "Eat slowly, don't worry." What Bai Ma said is the truth, you have to listen carefully. I grew up watching the young master grow up, and I can't say that I know it very well, but I can always see these clues. For a man like the young master, the women outside are staring at a lot, and if you have a child, you will have multiple guarantees. β
"You just said he gave me a week off?"
Fu Zhixia put down the milk, and Bai Ma brought the sobering tea to her again: "It's a week." Eighty percent are afraid that you will be too tired. This morning, I heard the young lady call the dean, as if he was very unhappy, and said that next time, I would let the young lady change the hospital to work. β
Fu Zhixia didn't listen to Bai Ma's words, she drank tea for a while, and she had already made up her mind.
Huo's.
When Huo Shaoting and Lu Huaian walked out of the conference room at the same time, they detonated a group of little fans of the company, and the WeChat group suddenly exploded.
ββSee, this is the new vice president of the company, and his appearance is off the charts!
- I think Mr. Huo is more handsome and manly, and Mr. Lu looks a little creamier.
- What kind of cream, people are white. Look at the two of them, one is black, the other is white, I heard that the deputy general office lacks a front desk, I don't know who will be competent?
- Have you heard that this Lu was always brought by Mr. Da Huo personally, and there are rumors that he has an unusual relationship with Mr. Da Huo. It's that kind of, very, very intimate relationship.
- I've heard that, so it's sishengzi, if you take a closer look, are the two of them still a little bit alike?
ββGossip magazines say that Mr. Huo and Mr. Huo have a stiff relationship, you say, will Mr. Lu in the future?
- Dare to talk nonsense, don't you want to die? Be careful (icon bloody kitchen knife)
ββIn terms of appearance and ability, who is better? Also, Mr. Lu is still surnamed Lu, when will he be able to return to orthodoxy?
- The two male gods have entered the office, and I'm going to investigate.
Lisa pulled the uniform on her body, watched Huo Shaoting and Lu Huaian walk in the direction of the office, and was about to step forward to ask what she needed, but was stopped by the powerful cold atmosphere.
She hesitated whether she should knock on the door and ask if she needed a cup of coffee, but it was conceivable that Mr. Huo was in a very bad mood, and she was likely to step on the thunder point if she asked so.
"Mr. Huo doesn't seem to welcome me very much. Lu Huai'an stood quietly at his desk, and the scene of that day came to his mind.
His old illness relapsed, and Fu Zhixia saved him again.
fate has always made him owe her a favor that she can't pay off with money. It's just that fate is also playing tricks on people, she turned out to be Huo Shaoting's woman.
Mr. Lu smiled. It's all about making money for the company, it doesn't matter if you're welcome or not, the information about the resort is here, Mr. Lu asked the assistant to come and get it or I asked Song Yin to send it over. β
Lu Huai'an's eyes fell on the corner of the desk, and suddenly said, "The last document has nothing to do with her." It was already like that when I came in, Mr. Huo should be a discerning person, and he must not be wronged. β
Huo Shaoting had already sat down on the Taipan chair, and when he heard this, he leaned back in the chair and turned lazily around: "Such a small matter, Mr. Lu still cares about it." Don't worry, it's just a little fun between us and my husband, and if I really ruin my papers, what can I do with her? β
Lu Huai'an looked at the slight glint that flashed in his eyes, his words that sounded like pampering were naturally said to him, and the relationship between Fu Zhixia and him was not normal for a clear-eyed person. Even if he admitted her identity to the press conference, it doesn't mean that a man like Huo Shaoting will fall in love with her.
He shouldn't have had the slightest thought on her.
"Speaking of which, is Mr. Lu and Miss Su about to have a good time? I heard that after getting married, the Su family will also inject capital into the Lu family," his voice paused, and said with a smile, "No, it should be the Huo family." β
Lu Huai'an smiled and watched Huo Shaoting smoke out a cigarette, and the blue-white smoke quickly blurred his angular face. He took a step closer, his fingers rubbing the edge of the table with his fingers intentionally or unintentionally, his ink-colored pupils couldn't see clearly, and he could only hear a faint sound:
"I'm not interested in Huo's, actually. β
"Oh?" he sneered, the tails of his eyes raised upward, "You're so unhappy, does Huo Xiuyuan know?"
"I can quit the Huo family, you give me back the Lu family without moving, believe this, Huo always can do it easily. β
Huo Shaoting slowly snuffed out the cigarette butt: "I don't quite understand what you mean." The reason why they went to great lengths to enter the Huo clan was to get out? This logic is not normal. β
There was a long silence in the office. For a long time, Lu Huai'an's slender fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, and his voice was low and serious.
"Let her go. β
These three words beat into his heart like a drum, Huo Shaoting raised his head, looked at Lu Huai'an's serious and fierce face, and asked knowingly, "Who are you talking about?"
Lu Huai'an was annoyed by his lazy grasp of sovereignty, and laughed angrily: "You don't like her, it's interesting to pester her around? While you restrain her, aren't you restraining yourself? Or are you preparing to raise a group of warblers and Yanyan outside, trapping her for the rest of her life?"
"This seems to be my private matter, and it has nothing to do with Mr. Lu. β
"Or do you like her too?"
Lu Huai'an realized that Huo Shaoting used the word "also", his eyes darkened a little, looked at him and said: "Zhixia is kind to me, I only hope that she can be free." At least her life should be normal. β
"Which eye did you see that her life was not normal?" Huo Shaoting stood up, his figure was a little taller than Lu Huai'an, and wearing black clothes, the sense of oppression was even stronger.
"Both eyes saw it. Lu Huai'an's gaze fell past him to the window, "I said, as long as you let her go, I will leave the Huo family." β
"So you entered the Huo Clan just to use this as a bargaining chip?" The man inserted one hand into his trouser pocket and pushed away the office chair with one hand, "Lu Huai'an, do you think this will be your bargaining chip? You can't threaten me if you leave or not, don't believe it, you try." β
"......" Lu Huai'an sneered, "I can't see that Huo is always a person who doesn't want the country for the sake of beauty, there is a shortcut here right now, you have given up the best road recently." Are you purely naΓ―ve and don't want my wish to be granted, or are you in love with Fu Zhixia?"
"Like. Why not?"
He responded quickly, Lu Huai'an was stunned, and heard him say again: "Mr. Lu can be so attentive to her, why do I like her so much? Besides, she is my wife." She loves me so much, she didn't hesitate to ruin her reputation for me, she drugged me to sleep with me, shouldn't I be moved by such love?"
"Since you have joined the company, you should devote yourself to Huo's family. If you can't make any achievements, it's useless not to be afraid that the wind will blow on Lu Ning's pillow? β
"Thank you Mr. Huo for the reminder, I will work hard. Lu Huai'an glanced at the documents on the desktop, "I will ask my assistant to come and pick up the information of the resort." β
He strode to the door, paused as he grasped the doorknob, he didn't look back, his voice was cold and firm:
"You're right, there are things that can only be guarded with strength. Taught. β
When Fu Zhixia arrived at Qingxi Village, it was dusk.
It is a small village, but the residents are dense. Walking along the winding path, I saw a large camphor tree at the head of the village, the trunk of which was extremely thick, and it took about a dozen people to hug it.
She has an impression of this tree, and the people in the village call it "the god of trees", and whoever wants to ask for something in the family will come and bow down. Therefore, the branches of this tree are covered with strips of red silk cloth.
A woman with half a hundred hair carried a basket and burned paper money, and said something as if she were praying something. Finally, she took out the red silk cloth and tried to tie it on tiptoe, but she was too short to reach it.
"Auntie, I'll help you!"
The woman turned her head and found that there was someone standing behind her, and when she saw Fu Zhixia's appearance, she was stunned for a while, and then handed her the red silk cloth in her hand: "Girl, thank you." β
"No, I don't. Fu Zhixia easily tied the red ribbon and asked with a smile, "Is that so?"
"Huh. The woman nodded, looked at Fu Zhixia and said, "The girl looks a little raw, is she here to find relatives?"
"Lady is from Qingxi Village?" she helped the woman sort out the contents of the basket, "Have you always lived in the village?" I would like to ask you about someone. β
"If you want to inquire about someone, just look for me! I have been living in Qingxi Village for many years. Who do you want to inquire, you say yes, as long as he has been in Qingxi Village, the eldest lady will keep it. β
"Auntie knows...... Yang Meiling?"
"Yang Meiling?" the woman recalled, nodded and said, "I know, but she has been away from here for many years, and I heard that she went to work as a nanny in a big family." I came back once a few years ago, and I heard that my husband had died, but now I haven't come back for a long time. The house had been empty, and the grass outside had grown as tall as a man. β
"Can you take me to see it?" Fu Zhixia looked at the house rising from the ground, which was very different from what he remembered.
"No, that's it. The woman pointed to a house in front of her as she walked, "The oldest and oldest one." In the past, Meiling's family conditions were good, and this house was already the best at that time. Now she should have bought a house in a big city and will basically not come back. Girl, who are you, what do you want to ask her?"
Fu Zhixia estimated that her current appearance was very different from when she was a child, and coupled with the long time, basically no one would recognize her. She smiled and said, "I heard that her fate is quite bumpy, you just said that her husband died, and it seems that there is no son left, and only a daughter remains." β
As they spoke, the two of them had already walked to a house, which was a two-story building, but it was already very old, and when they opened the door, thick dust fell, and the two waved their hands and coughed a few times.
"Speaking of her daughter, it's really pitiful, this girl is handsome, she looks smart, and she is well-behaved and capable, and she is very sensible, and we are envious when we look at it. But this Meiling treats her badly. β
Fu Zhixia's heart sank, and he asked astringently, "It's not good?"
"yes, no, I don't like it. When she was pregnant, she was still working as a helper in a large family, and when she came back, she brought a baby. I thought she was going to live here permanently, but she left a few years later. β
"If you want me to say, this person has eight characters, even if it is a mother and daughter, they are not compatible. Yang Meiling and her daughter are incompatible, and she is very good to her son, I think her patriarchal thinking is too serious. β
Fu Zhixia looked at the display in the house, basically unchanged, some sporadic memories popped up, and the woman next to her continued: "Speaking of her son, this child is also short-lived, so it's gone." At that time, her whole body was about to collapse, and she put all the blame on her daughter, beating and scolding at every turn. Later, it was Fu Hai who took her daughter away, saying that she wanted her to think clearly, and he didn't want this family if he didn't want his daughter. β
"He walked for a long time and then came back with his daughter. After that, she got better for a while, but it was also in front of Fu Hai. I've heard people say that she still holds a grudge, and once she even stabbed a villain at the tree god, and the villain's name was written on her daughter. β
Fu Zhixia felt a chill down her spine, and she looked up at her: "So, did she dislike this daughter before, and then hated this daughter? She wasn't in the village when she was pregnant, and when she arrived in the village, she already brought a child of how old she was?"
"That's right. Because of her, many people in the village speculated that this daughter was not her biological daughter. The more she grows up, the more she looks like it, her eyebrows, eyes, and nose, which point will be like her and Fu Hai, and she can't give birth to such a beautiful daughter when she looks at her. β
β......β
"Later, I heard from the people in the village that this Meiling was drunk once, and they also said that this daughter was not born to her, so why should she help others raise her! It was probably after this that she left the village again. β
Fu Zhixia stepped back unsteadily, holding on to the corner of the table, and when all the speculations were confirmed, the truth would collapse with a force that crushed people.
The mobile phone in the bag continued to vibrate, but only a woman's voice rang in her ears: "I don't know how her daughter is now, fortunately, there is a Fu Hai, who hurts this daughter like a baby." So everyone guesses that this daughter was born to Fu Hai and a woman outside, so she holds a grudge like this!"